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 More options Sep 1 2008, 9:49 am
From: JohnMu
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 06:49:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Webmaster Tools shows 404 errors for old pages that don't exist - what to do ?
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Hi snowman2468 and welcome to the groups!

Accessing the URL you specified (
http://www.cheaperthanhotels.co.uk/Ecuador/Quito/Town/Cafe-Cultura-Ho...
) with a Googlebot user agent redirects to http://www.cheaperthanhotels.com/file-not-found.aspx
which in turn is blocked from being crawled through your robots.txt
file.

The Googlebot user agent I used is:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/
bot.html)

As you are using IIS for hosting, it's possible that this issue is
related to an issue described (and solved) in:
http://www.kowitz.net/archive/2006/12/11/asp.net-2.0-mozilla-browser-...
http://todotnet.com/archive/0001/01/01/7472.aspx

It would most likely be easier to recognize this as a server error if
your error page was not blocked from crawling and instead returned the
result code which the server generates (500 instead of 404). That
said, it doesn't matter to the Googlebot, so as long as you can keep
track of and solve any issues that come up, you should be fine :).

Hope it helps!
John


 
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